918 rm: butterflies of new enolanu. 



iiig the list of known food plants of the Auieriean and liiiioj)ean species ; 

 finally, the Might and attitudes of tlie butterHy should he more fully studied 

 and parasites of both egg and lai-va slioiild be disco\ered. 



LIST OF ILLUSTIIATIONS.—EVERES COMYNTAS. 



Eyg. Imago. 



n. 65, tig. 20. Obliciuc view. PI. 6, fig. "J. Male, both surfaces; colorod. 



C8:5, 12. Micropyle. jy Female, iipiu-r surface; coloml. 



Uaterpillar. 14:2. Male, both surfaces; plain. 



PI. 71, fig. 5. Caterpillar at birth. Si: 26,21. Male abiloininal appendages. 



75:37,44. Mature caterpillars. 39:20. Neuratioii. 



79:36-3S. Front views of liead, stiiges i, 40:31. Audroconiiini. 



iii, V. 55 : 3. Side view witli head and appendagcg 



Chrysalis. enlarged, and details of leg structure. 



PI. 84, fig. 42,4.S. .Side views. General. 



47. Enlarged. PI.24, fig. 5. Distribution in Nortli America. 



CYANIRIS DALMAN. 



Cyaniris Dalni., Veten.slc. acad. handl., xxxvii : ()3, 94 (1810). riipe.—Piip. ari/lolus Linn. 



In their own bright Kathaian bowers. 

 Sparkle such rainbow butterllies. 



That they might fancy the rich flowers, 

 Thiit round them in the" sun lay sighing, 

 Had been by luagic all set flying! 



MooRK.—Lalla Bookh. 



That come before the swallow dares, and take 

 The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim. 



.SnAKE.spE.iuB.— Winter''s Tale. 



Imago (55: 5). He;iil (61 : 12) small, densely clothed witli .scales, -which are tufted 

 about the ba.se of the anteunae, and provided with a considerable mass of long erect 

 hairs, longest and most abundant iu the middle of the front. Front very gently curved 

 tran.sversely, very slightly fullest below ; from a little above the middle, downward, 

 barely surpassing the front of the eyes, not so elevated above, but vaguely grooved 

 longitudinally ; scarcely twice as high as broad, as broad as the front view of the eyes ; 

 sides parallel, upper border squarely excised, its angles slightly hollowed in front of 

 the antennae; lower border strongly rounded. Vertex not vaulted, but with a slight, 

 low tubercle on either side, midwiiy between the antennae and the middle of the hind 

 border, abruptly elevated behind the antennae, forming a transverse ridge for their sup- 

 port; separated from the occiput by a rather deep, slightly curving groove, its middle 

 curving forward, the sides forming a right angle witli each other, the anterior slope 

 of the groove the more abrupt. Eyes not very large, moderately full, delicately and 

 distantly pilose on the lower two-thirds with very short hairs, increasiug iu length 

 downward. Antennae inserted in the middle of tlie summit, separated by a space 

 equal to the width of the antennal pits, slightly longer than the abdomen, composed 

 of about thirty-four joints of which the last twelve or thirteen form a club similar in 

 all respects to that of Everes, excepting that the tip is more broadly rounded. Palpi 

 slender, scarcely more than half as long again as the eye, the apical joint very nearly 

 half as long as the penultimate, the whole uuder surface, and particularly that 

 of the Ijasal and middle joints, furnished with a mass of long, erect, delicate hairs, as 

 long as the apical joint, which become shorter apically and which lie in a vertical 

 plane, but not compressed. 



Patagia small, slender, uc:irly flat, scarcely arched longitudinally, two or throe times 



